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Daniel Linehan, Not About Everything, Studio du CDC, 2009
© Le Printemps de Septembre— à Toulouse
photo Franck Alix
Conception, interpretation: Daniel Linehan
Lighting design: Joe Levasseur
Dramaturgy: Juliette Mapp
A dancer enters the stage alone and begins to spin around. The rotation begins slowly but gradually turns into a frenetic and obsessive gyratory movement. Without ever stopping, Daniel Linehan introduces into this simple movement of the body a series of variations, accelerations, and subtle shifts, creating a bizarre and complex dance. He imposes constraints on himself involving multiple and simultaneous tasks: speaking, thinking, reading, addressing the audience. Linehan says he doesn't talk about despair, endurance, government policy, he doesn't talk about fame, virtuosity or metaphysical problems. However, although his words seem to deny it, he draws attention to these issues that evoke a world much larger than the one contained within the limited circle he delineates with his movement. In this way, Daniel Linehan creates a space for meditative reflection.
Jointly produced with the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique, Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées.
With the support of Fondation Jerome, la Fondation Ford, le Fond national pour les Arts (agence culturelle fédérale des Etats-Unis), Conseil des Arts de l’Etat de New York and Fondation Jerome Robbins.